Comparison-Contrast

Raising children over the last several decades has changed dramatically . The life that children led , and the concerns they had fifty or sixty years ago are not the same as the concerns today . A lot of things have happened since then , including the invention of many more kinds of technology , and the different societal values and beliefs that are present

Back in the 1950s , what children valued was different . In an article on children 's birthdays , it says that children should not be given expensive gifts or fancy parties , because they do

not want this Instead , it suggests making the child feel special in other ways - placing a bouquet at his place at breakfast , buying him the best book on the market , and having a cake to cut when Father ' is at home at dinner time . This is very different than the advice some would give today (Patri

The clothes that kids wore were very different , too . Girls did not usually wear pants , especially to school . A clothing advertisement from the 50s shows jeans with suspenders and polo shirts . These were typical play clothes for boys , unlike today 's regular jeans and T-shirts (Retro-housewife .com

Kids also did not have technology the way we do . There were no tapes CDs , or VCRs . Many homes did not even have televisions , and those that did were black and white . Families did not have the TV on all day , and there was no kids ' programming . Kids instead would go outside and play with their friends , and play simple games like Kick the Can ' or stick ball . Families on average did not have as much money , so kids did not have fancy toys

Today , the world is very different . All kids have technology , even if their families don 't have a lot of money . It is common for kids to have cell phones , iPods , and other personal electronic devices . Kids carry these with them everywhere . Kids have computers and the internet , and remain connected to their friends almost constantly through technology

Big , fancy parties are much more common now than they were fifty years ago . Kids have birthday parties with many guests , special activities and lots of presents . Sometimes there is a competition among parents to throw the biggest and best birthday party for their kid , and kids want to be cool , too . But of course , a kid 's birthday was special fifty years ago , and it still is now . It 's just celebrated differently

Also , teaching kids values is not as easy in this day and age . A lot more is acceptable , behavior-wise , than it was fifty years ago . Girls can wear short-shorts to school with tank tops (in some schools . It is considered more acceptable to be rude than it is to correct someone else 's child . Parents may struggle to teach their kids right from wrong (RD living

Schools are also not as safe . Children have and use guns now , which they didn 't fifty years ago . Schools are no longer...